Does Tourism Contribute to Local Livelihoods? A Case Study of Tourism, Poverty and Conservation in the Indian Sundarbans

Indrila Guha () and Santadas Ghosh

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: This study examines the contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in a remote island village of the Indian Sundarbans.

Keywords: India; Indian; sundarbans; tourism; livelhoods; local; people; island; village; poverty; conservation; Per-capita expenditure; opportunities; Local stakeholders; Pro-poor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-08
Note: Institutional Papers
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownl ... &AId=1610&fref=repec

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:1610

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Padma Prakash ().